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Sec[Section] 1st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly:2 That hereafter no owner or ocupyer of a Public mill, shall be held accountable for the safe keeping of any grain received in his mill, to be ground or for the bags or casks containing the same, unless said bags or casks shall be distinctly marked with the initial letter of the owner’s christian name, and his surname in full, any thing in former laws to the contrary notwithstanding
Sec 2. It shall be the duty of the owner or ocupyer of every Public mill, to unload and load all such grain as shall be brought to him on horse back to be ground, and he shall assist in unloading and loading all grain brought in carriages and waggons for the same purpose, and for a failure to do so, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceding ten dollars for each offence to be recovered before any Justice of the Peace, in the name and to the use of any person who will sue for the same, This act to be in force from and after the first day of June next,3
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01/22/1835
David Prickett
Passed H. R. Jan. 22d 1835
D. Prickett Clk[Clerk] H. R.
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H. R.
A Bill for an act to amend “an act, regulating mills and millers approved February 9. 1827.
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Engrossed
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Select Com.
Will
Hacker
Williams
1William McHenry introduced HB 66 in the House of Representatives on January 2, 1835. On January 4, the House referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on January 6 without amendment. The House referred the bill to a seven-person select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on January 12 with an amendment, in which the House concurred. The House referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on January 16 with sundry amendments, in which the House concurred. After further amendment, the House concurred in striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting a substitute. Representatives offered amendments to the substitute, and the House referred the substitute and proposed amendments to a five-person select committee that included Abraham Lincoln. The select committee reported back the bill on January 21 with sundry amendments, in which the House concurred. The House passed the bill as amended on January 22. On January 27, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on February 5 without amendment. The Senate refused to read the bill a third time.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 121, 201, 210, 233, 280, 304-05, 344, 354; Journal of the Senate, of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 311, 345, 440; Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their Second Session, Begun and Held in Pursuance of the Proclamation of the Governor, in the Town of Vandalia, December 7, 1835 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 400.
2On January 16, 1835, the House of Representatives amended the bill by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting a substitute. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 304-305.
3The act of February 9, 1827 specified that millers would not be accountable for any bags or casks of grain received unless the owner marked the bags or casks with the initial letters of his or her name. HB 66 sought to change that proviso from the initial letters of the owner’s name to the initial letter of the owner’s first name and his surname in full. The original bill also had no provision requiring millers to unload and load grain brought to their mills. HB 66 added that duty.
“An Act regulating Mills and Millers,” 9 February 1827, The Revised Laws of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: Greiner & Sherman, 1833), 452.

Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 52, HB 66, GA Session: 9-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,